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My parched and bleeding lips.
And the blood I taste, the blood I swallow
Is as far away from wine
As 5:10 is for the one who dies
At 5:09.
Sometimes a form like this wears down or becomes predictable, but Shapiro keeps imagining new turns of mind and phrase, all true to the character.
Robert Pinsky's most recent book of poetry is "Gulf Music."
(Alan Shapiro's poem "Country-Western Singer" can be found in his forthcoming book "Old War: Poems." Houghton Mifflin. Copyright 2008 by Alan Shapiro.)
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